The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith
by Andrew F. Walls
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"This book brings together lectures and articles by the renowned historian of world Christianity, making them available, many for the first time, to scholars and students of world mission. While examining the many aspects that have characterized mission, indigenous Christianity, and colonialism in modern Africa, The Missionary Movement in Christian History has a far broader reach. Essays such as "The Gospel as the Prisoner and Liberator of Culture" reveal the paradoxes of the Christian show more movement as a whole in discussing how different primitive Mediterranean Christianity is from early Catholicism, from Celtic monasticism, from Reformation Protestantism, and from Nigerian Spirit Christianity." "Andrew Walls shows how the central question for Christianity has always been one of identity in many different forms, a phenomenon revealed at each stage of its history by the missionary movement. What this means for theology, however, has hardly been explored. This is the subtext of Walls' work, providing extraordinary insights and successful counters to secular critiques of world Christianity."--Jacket. show lessTags
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Andrew F. Walls is a former missionary to Sierra Leone and Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh; Professor of the History of Mission, Liverpool Hope University; and Emeritus Professor, Akrofi-Christaller Institute, Akropong, Ghana. His books include The Missionary Movement in Christian History The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian show more History, and (with Cathy Ross), Mission in the 21st Century show less
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- Religion & Spirituality, Nonfiction, History
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- 266.009 — Religion Christian organization, social work & worship Missions Missions; Home and Foreign Missions; Home and Foreign History, geographic treatment, biography
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- BV2100 .W26 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Practical Theology Practical Theology Missions
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